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To gain a deeper understanding of how the lessons affected the participants’ brains activity, the researchers hooked the children up to an electroencephalography (EEG) machine. The test revealed children who had piano lessons were more sensitive to a series of tones of different pitches, suggesting this is what aided the participants to learn new words.

Results from a study measuring gray-matter volumes in monolingual or bilingual undergraduates. Red areas indicate where gray-matter volumes were greater in one group versus the other. In total, study participants who spoke both English and Spanish had greater gray-matter volume compared to participants who spoke only English.

Even when Jianguo was arrested a year and a half ago, his police guards stopped by a restaurant to let him “have a good meal” before taking him to a secret detention site. The next day, picking him up to go home, they brought him yogurt and a meat pie. During initial questioning about his online post, the police appeared to want to get him off the hook.

"If the parents realized they’d be in as much trouble as their children were for making this threat, they’d probably have a tighter grip on these kids."

As an intelligence officer with the communist guerillas in the Pearl River Delta region, he provided crucial information about the Japanese in Guangdong to the US military. A Communist Party stalwart, he helped set up the guerillas’ liaison office in Hong Kong, which later became a branch of the Xinhua News Agency, Beijing’s de facto embassy in the city after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

The deal smashed the prior record of US$1.64 billion by Yunfeng Financial Group, backed by Alibaba Group Holding co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma Yun, which agreed to buy MassMutual Asia, the Asian unit of US-based Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance in 2017, according to Refinitiv data.

Kevin Khong, owner of Don Café Sandwich, said he recently had a customer coming in from the airport who left her bags in her parked car. Within a few moments of being inside the store, a vehicle pulled up to her car and passengers made off with her bags.

International storytime at the library has been a staple at the Brookwood Library since 2007, and has proven popular among families, said Dawn Borgardt, library and youth services supervisor.

Originally used by livestreaming gamers to refer to impudent in-game behaviour — vigorously moving one’s avatar back and forth over the pixelated corpse of a slain rival, for example — it was more widely popularized through memes such as “You’ve just been cheeky; are you happy now?” Another popular meme featuring Peppa Pig’s porcine papa reads, “I’m so happy to be a bit cheeky.”

“Because some of the years Splore has been through, no logically thinking individual would keep it around,”  he says.

Other events like the Workers’ Film Festival, the Xin Experience, the Literary Arts Team… are also followed constantly by students or teacher specialists. “Pay attention. See if Xinguang people do anything illegal.” Moreover, Xinguang students’ roommates have been mobilized on a large scale. They monitor the Xinguang students and report every day. A certain roommate of a Xinguang student reported being contacted by a teacher and Party Committee Deputy Secretary countless times, and it was still the beginning of the semester. All because she was the Xinguang student’s roommate. Such frequent harassment is obviously disturbing for roommates. On the one hand they feel what they’re doing is wrong. On the other, they’re acting under coercion, and can’t escape scrutiny or the daily reports they have to make. They feel they’re betraying a friendship. How can someone feel good in that situation?

BEIJING—Ofo Inc., the once high-flying Chinese bike-sharing venture known for its yellow bicycles, is crashing, after an exhausting battle with rivals.